This week I worked on a project involving beams. First, we had to create two beams. The first beam I had to create was a classic I-beam. Next, I had to create a beam of my choice. So I decide to created a different type of I-beam, that looked sort of like a smushed-down I. Once I had finished these two beams I had to start the test. I took two little tables with even heights and put them a bit less than a foot away from each other. Then I took a plastic reusable bag and put the first classic I-beam through the handles. I put the I-beam laying across the space between the tables with a little less than an inch 0f the beam on each table, the bag hanging down under it with out touching the group. Then I started, one by one, placing books in the bag. Finally, I had put in 14 books. At this point I decided to stop putting in books because the beam was tilting to the side, but it showed no signs of breaking, which means that this I-beam is very strong! Next, I re-set the books and took off the first I-beam. I slid the next beam through the handles of the bag and set it across the tables. I started out putting the books into the bag and soon noticed that the beam was tilting a lot! So much in fact that it was about to fall! Even though both of they beams were technically able to support 14 books, the first beam, the original I-beam was obviously stronger. So in doing this project, it helped me realize that I-beams are very strong and I now understand why I-beams are used in a lot of structures!